Abstract
Having related Byrom and Law to their intellectual milieu, we can the better appreciate the originality and significance of the philosophy Law developed and Byrom versified. Although primarily derived from Boehme, as an instrument to sharpen his critique of latitudinarianism, it became in Law’s hands a vision of life as well as a method of reasoning. Designed to support his theological views, it became a tool to render coherent all phenomenon, physical, psychological and spiritual. Its organic structure and its comprehensive application is such that it often reveals aesthetic implications. Although Law did not concern himself with following up these implications, their similarity in many respects to the Coleridgean aesthetic is striking and worthy of analysis.
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J Boehme, The Signature of All Things (London: J. M. Dent, 1912). Preface to the Reader, p. 3.
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Hoyles, J. (1972). Theological Renewal. In: The Edges of Augustanism. International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d’Histoire des Idees, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2819-6_11
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